Monthly Archives: April 2013

As we sat outside with friends last evening with spring surrounding us, the conversation turned to birds. Mary Ann recently saw and photographed a special “triple” here in the Texas hill country: a painted bunting, an indigo bunting, and a lazuli bunting. I would love to see all three of these gorgeous birds together. We […]

A pair of handmade pottery lamps, although slightly lopsided, constituted one of my first home furnishings purchases many years ago. Intuitively, I have always responded to the handmade and the imperfect in design. But through the years I’ve wasted a lot of energy carrying the weight of perfectionism as it applies to myself: fashioning non-competitive […]

A few weeks ago, I paused when I read the following news headline: “Astronomers have discovered the largest known structure in the universe, a clump of active galactic cores that stretches 4 billion light-years from end to end.” This discovery evidently made astronomers rethink the size of the cosmos. It made me think, though, of […]

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. –John Burroughs Since returning home to the Texas hill country a little more than a week ago, I have felt particularly welcomed by spring blooms and by the healing rain that first started on Easter Sunday and returned […]